MICR Code: 734002999

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0007946
MICR Code: 734002999
Address: Darjeelingstate West Bengalpin 734401
City: Darjeeling
District: Darjeeling
State: West Bengal

MICR is acronym of Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. Basically it is a character-recognition technology used by the banking industry to ease the processing and clearance of cheques and other documents.

Generally MICR code is nine character long. First three charaters represent city, next three charaters represents bank name and last three charaters represents bank branch.

Let's decode MICR code 734002999.

  • In this case first three codes 734 is city code and it represents city Darjeeling.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 999 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Darjeelingstate West Bengalpin 734401.

The easiest way to find MICR code is to check your

  1. Bank account statement
  2. Cheques

Please examine below sample cheque for more details

I hope this clears doubts.